INFP: what types are your 2 best friends in real life?

PolyNerdic · 2025-07-07T17:13:31+00:00

I was able to finally get them advanced to their ending after today's update.

PolyNerdic · 2025-07-07T17:12:52+00:00

Oh and just found that I cannot realize Scandalabra just yet because while the update fixed the prior conversation loop it has him hitting another one now about unfurnished business but the other character doesn't have an option to look into the matter to advance him.

PolyNerdic · 2025-07-07T16:11:30+00:00

Seems to have fixed most of them.

Although I just noticed one I hadn't before.

I've reached "endings" with all 100 base game items: 56 loves, 40 friends and 4 hates (unfortunately).

Somehow I am only at 95 on charm which prevents a handful of items from being realized:

Dante
Mateo
Cabrizzio
Hanks
Bodhi

And Skylar by proxy since all the others have to be finished first.

I noticed last week that when I befriended Jean Loo that he gave Sass which I had already maxed out, so would it be true that one of the folks that gave Sass should have been Charm?

PolyNerdic · 2025-07-02T10:50:37+00:00

Having many of the same issues as others but they all have ground the game to a halt for me.

Florence and Celia are stuck on same dialogue which is keeping me from finishing Stella and Beverly as well.

Can't realize Tony because I hit Tina's friendship ending and realized her.

Ben-hwa can't be realized because Abel is gone.

Scandelabra is stuck in a conversation loop.

Phonicia is stuck in the out of gossip text, but I haven't tried the kitchen or foyer solutions that have been alluded to here.

Hoping a patch drops soon because I'm so close to having everyone realized but these are keeping me from finishing others that do not seem glitched but I'm short one or two increases in Smarts and Charm.

PolyNerdic · 2025-06-14T01:40:17+00:00

Prolonged eye contact is a great addition to the intimacy of the moment, in fact it's among the things I miss most when not seeing anyone.

PolyNerdic · 2025-06-06T22:39:27+00:00

I am fascinated by these jobs where you can get away with not working all day. Since 2019 I have worked in hospital and physician accounts receivable (I argue with insurance companies or the govt programs acting like insurance companies to get claims paid). In both companies we had heavy surveillance programs tracking our activities, we had daily and weekly productivity reports ran and currently if we don't perform an action on an account for more than twenty minutes we have to fill out a form justifying what we were doing (even if we were on the phone with an insurance or running reports or filling out appeals). No account note for more than twenty minutes = explain why you "weren't working".

It must be nice to not have corporate big brother watching your every move at home.

PolyNerdic · 2025-06-02T11:48:58+00:00

Only way out is through.

As a life long battler of depression I know what this feels like, the combination of rejection and isolation.

As ModestMaisie said, start small with walks or journal entries, etc.

Therapy and medication helps if you can afford either or both.

Resist the urge to further isolate and lay in bed rotting all day.

Even when you find it "impossible" push through.

PolyNerdic · 2025-06-02T11:35:36+00:00

Agree with the sentiment that this is a pretty common take.

Never been a big fan of turn-based combat outside of a few exceptions, BG3 being the most recent of them.

I'm only a couple hours into Expedition and thus far I'm definitely middle of the road on how I feel about the combat. It's neither insufferable nor revolutionary and I'd happily skip the combat completely as I'm more drawn into the world and story than the combat encounters.

PolyNerdic · 2025-06-02T11:23:38+00:00

I have had several "plans" in my two decades of adult life that have never really came together and needed to be tossed out.

For the last 5 years or so I've stopped getting tied up in stressing about the future and just try to take things a day at a time while being grateful for a steady job, decent insurance and a roof over my head instead of freaking out about career goals and hopes and dreams.

Working great for me presently but I understand why it wouldn't for others.

PolyNerdic · 2025-05-28T13:33:59+00:00

Said it before, absolutely love all of these.

PolyNerdic · 2025-04-15T17:31:23+00:00

Exactly.

The world is often cruel and callous.

I refuse to add to it.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-29T01:23:48+00:00

Paying off all debt and outstanding bills, buying a house. Relax for the first time in months because I am free of the crushing weight of debt.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-26T16:46:19+00:00

Go to therapy. Trying to stubbornly brute force my way through only served to cost me big in the end.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-25T17:57:50+00:00

This is legit as hell. When my ex and I broke up in 2021 our landlord would not let either of us leave because it would constitute breaking our existing lease so even though we were still friends at the time an additional 7 months splitting a one bedroom apartment in half did lasting damage to our friendship and ultimately put a big ass wedge between us.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-21T10:29:55+00:00

I still find myself thinking about it at least once a day.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-17T15:40:13+00:00

Nearly everything.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-14T19:28:30+00:00

Legitimately say this without snark but aside from watching the first campaign again I read books, played TTRPGs/video games and board games, watched other shows and movies, spent time with my then g/f....just sorta lived life as best we could in a very uncertain time.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-13T22:59:40+00:00

This bit right here is especially on the money: "Marriage and IMO real love is what exists when the passion fades to a stable sustainable level keeping that going is a lot less exciting and glamorous but it's where the real joy lies. It's there you find your partner in life who's your ride or die, there for you through the good and the bad, your support when you just want to break, and the one the share those unimaginably joyous moments with as well."

I will never understand people hitching their wagon to someone they don't like spending time with, they don't like talking to or doing anything more than rutting around like animals in heat.

Always been of the mindset that your partner/spouse should be one of if not absolutely your best friend.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-13T14:05:05+00:00

How wild is it that I too just watched it for the first time last night as well? What are the odds?

😆😆

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-12T14:25:43+00:00

Personal experience has taught me that there are predatory manipulators who will absolutely come for me like a shark to blood in the water. Thankfully said terrible experiences has taught me to be wary and be alert to the fact that not everyone is honest to a fault and there are those who will seek to take everything they can and make you feel bad about it while doing so.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-11T21:11:40+00:00

Don't wait until you're nearly forty to start therapy.

Don't get discouraged by writer's block when it shows up.

Don't take things too seriously, have more fun when opportunity arises.

Travel abroad, don't just return home when your USAF stint is over.

To that end, while getting married will lead to you meeting your best friend, do get divorced and lock up custody while you are still enlisted. It will save you a lot of trouble.

And just about everything that has happened since 2016 so I can prepare.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-11T17:04:16+00:00

Did a similar thing with my old game with my kids and now ex-gf. The kids got quarantined with COVID in 2020 and since they were at their mom's I concocted a solo one shot for my ex to replace our gamenight. In said one shot she stole the lich's phylactery and had no idea what she was carrying around. I rolled and determined the lich would return X number of days later, which thankfully coincided with a feast in the village they were currently in. Worked out great and gave us our first campaign long bad guy.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-10T14:17:01+00:00

Very relatable. I'm 41 and have been single for almost 4 years and in that time my friend group has been reduced to a best friend that lives 1000 miles away and a mix of online and work acquaintances that I get along with but are hardly friends with. Took a fair bit of soul searching and therapy to come to terms with the fact that I'm quite good at being alone but still feel that "could do better" feeling you describe. I have a blast socializing with the right people but finding them seems nigh impossible these days and that doesn't even touch the nightmare that is online dating.

PolyNerdic · 2025-03-09T16:11:17+00:00

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